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mark (MAHRK) (noun)
1. A victim or recipient of ridicule or bullying: The angry students thought the new student would be an easy mark for teasing.
2. A distinguishing impression or trait of something: When Albert completed his university education, he had the mark of a gentleman and a scholar.
3. A prominent or well-known object or guidepost for travelers: The tall building on the corner was the mark Lenora was looking for because she wanted to turn left at that point.
4. A label or indication of quality or price: The mark on this jacket indicated that it was on sale.
5. When capitalized, it is a man's name: Marissa's friend, Mark, is going to drive the car tonight when they go out.
2. A distinguishing impression or trait of something: When Albert completed his university education, he had the mark of a gentleman and a scholar.
3. A prominent or well-known object or guidepost for travelers: The tall building on the corner was the mark Lenora was looking for because she wanted to turn left at that point.
4. A label or indication of quality or price: The mark on this jacket indicated that it was on sale.
5. When capitalized, it is a man's name: Marissa's friend, Mark, is going to drive the car tonight when they go out.
mark (MAHRK) (verb)
1. To highlight or to make note of something: Keith will mark the date in his calendar when he plans to go out for dinner with his friends.
2. To determine the value of something: The teacher decided to mark all the students' essays on the weekend.
2. To determine the value of something: The teacher decided to mark all the students' essays on the weekend.
marque (MAHRK) (noun)
A product brand: The company made exceptionally good quality marque of saddles for the equestrian school.
Jason's friend, Mark, who was usually an easy mark for teasing, decided to check out the mark on the new laptop before buying it; however, he decided on a laptop which had a well-known marque.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group M; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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“mark”
(Latin: spot, mark, stain, blot, blemish, mesh; the original meaning of macula seems to have been, "a soiled spot, a spot to be cleaned")
(Latin: from gnoscere, to come to know, to get to know, to get acquainted [with]; know, learn; mark, sign; and cognoscere, to get to know, to recognize)
(Greek: signal, signals; sign, signs; mark, marks; symbol, symbols)
(Latin: mark, token, indication; a fact, a condition, or a quality)
(Greek > Latin: mark, reproach; shame, disgrace; from Greek, puncture; brand; tattoo mark; point)
((Greek kharakter, Latin character: a distinctive mark or impression))
(Latin: character; Greek: kharakter; originally, "a distinctive mark, a sign, or impression"; then it came to mean "an aggregate of distinctive qualities")
(Mark Plotkin, an ethnobotanist takes up the cause of rain forest conservation)
(Latin: pungere, punctum to strike, to hit, to punch, to pierce, to puncture, to point, to sting, to bite; a dot, a mark; a point, a sharp point, a pinpoint)
(as seen in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, 1599, we have this famous speech)
(Greek: to aim at, to guess, to conjecture; to aim, to target, to mark)
(Greek > Latin: to beat, to strike; a blow; a dent, an impression, a mark, original form; a mold; a figure, an image, a form, a kind)
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“mark”
A sign (") indicating a repetition which is usually put under a word, a number, or a passage that is supposed to be repeated: "Since there were so many words that were the same for each answer in the survey, Josh used ditto marks to indicate which ones were the same as the ones shown above."
Marcus filled out answers for numbers 2-4 with ditto marks:
- Do you like ice cream? Yes
- Do you like chocolate candy? "
- Do you like cookies? "
- Do you like apple crumble? "
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dic-, dict-
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A printed or written symbol which is neither a letter nor a number: Punctuation marks help make the meanings of compositions more understandable, such as periods, commas, question marks, colons, semicolons, exclamation marks, quotation marks, parentheses, brackets, hyphens, apostrophes, etc.
You can learn more about punctuation marks by clicking on this Index of Punctuation Marks and Punctuation Marks with Symbols, Explanations, and Examples.
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pung-, punc-, punct-
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When someone is in prison, what is his or her favorite punctuation mark?
A period, because it is at the end of a sentence.
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paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia
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(Latin punctus "a point" or "a mark"; the standardized non-alphabetical symbols or marks that are used to organize writing into clauses, phrases, and sentences, and in this way to clarify meanings)
(a mark of punctuation for questions)
(underlining as a punctuation mark)
Word Entries at Get Words containing the term:
“mark”
Exclamation Mark
The exclamation unit of punctuation marks.
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Index of Punctuation Marks
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A symbol, !, indicating excitement, surprise, or shock.
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Punctuation Marks with Symbols, Explanations, and Examples
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Question Mark
The question mark unit of punctuation marks.
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Index of Punctuation Marks
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This ? is used at the end of a sentence to indicate a question.
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Punctuation Marks with Symbols, Explanations, and Examples
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This symbol " consists of either of a pair of punctuation marks used to mark the beginning and the end of a passage by another person and repeated word for word, and it also indicates meanings and the unusual or doubtful status of a word.
They appear in the form of double quotation marks (" ") and single quotation marks (' '). The single quotation marks usually indicate a quotation within a normal quotation.
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Punctuation Marks with Symbols, Explanations, and Examples
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The Exclamation Mark (Point) !
Wham!
Bang!
Zowie!
Oh!
Here is a mark it's exciting to know.
If it's called not a mark but a point, this is why:
It points like a rocket right up at the sky,
A rocket just launched from its pad with a blast
And a swish! and a swoosh!
And it's rising fast!
It's slim
And it's trim
And it's soldier straight,
Like a guard that's on guard at a palace gate.
It's also like someone set free who was bound,
Now joyfully jumping a foot off the ground.
You find it with grim and you find it with gay,
Not only with "ouch!"
But, as often, "Hooray!"
It's not for a whisper, it's more for a shout,
So look for excitement when it is about!
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Exclamation !
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The Question Mark ?
This punctuation mark is well known and like the period, it means that a thought has been completely expressed, but it also tells the reader that the writer has not expressed the sentence or thought as an assertion but is asking something.
"Jim fell down." "Jim fell down?" The first sentence means one thing; the second means something quite different.
Since the initial capital letters and the three-worded thoughts are exactly the same in both sentences, the differences in meanings are communicated only by the different punctuation marks at the ends of the two sentences and these differences can be communicated in no other way known to writing and printing.
Why is a question mark?
What can it be?
Already you've two of them. How about three?
It looks like an acrobat perched on a ball
Who has to be nimble or else he will fall.
His legs come down straight,
But his back is a curve,
And keeping his balance
Takes talent
And Nerve.
Or is it like smoke that comes lazily curling
From a blaze underneath in a ball that is twirling?
Or a hook used for hanging?
Or maybe a genie
Coming out of a bottle?
(The bottle is teeny.)
Whatever it looks like (have you a suggestion?),
The question mark raises (and lowers) a question.
No reason to scorn it or ever to doubt it.
This mark's made its mark.
Any question about it?
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Questions Mark Punctuation
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